We have successfully re-united my eMac 125 with its external HD and Leopard OS.
After many emails to the manufacturers, and several purchases and returns, it turns out that even when the box and literature say the drive enclosure will go back to 10.2 and that the case claims to sport Firewire 400 capabilities, that is NOT enough. Many of the units on the shelves today have been "re-programmed" to enable them to access the larger 3 and 4 TB HDs. When this takes place, booting with Firewire is removed in favor of booting via USB. Since machines of similar age or older to my eMac cannot boot with USB, putting my bare HD into a case like that was suiside. I finally discovered that you could request the roms in the case to be re-flashed down to the old level (which OWC thankfully did it for free) which allowed the drive to work like a charm. If you are replacing a Firewire HD for a relic like I did, be sure to challenge the salesman to ensure that it will be bootable with Firewire and that it's firmware is "old school." If it has the new roms, it will be fine for storage of data but it not boot. Thanks for all of your input. Don Wakefield DTPetc! (DeskTop Productions et cetera!) Ballwin, Missouri, USA -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
